Java has gotten better over the years (borrowing good ideas from Scala) and is maintainable. They make a huge effort to keep Java backwards compatible, even ac

Java has gotten better over the years (borrowing good ideas from Scala) and is maintainable. They make a huge effort to keep Java backwards compatible, even across major releases. I depend on some ancient Java libs and they still work just fine. It's a huge relief when major version bumps don't break everything.